Apr. 28 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk in the workshop on "Glucose-Responsive Insulin (GRI)" by JDRF.

Apr. 20 - Jinrecieved 2016 UNC Chapel Hill Distinguished Dissertation Award! It recognizes the scholarly contributions of UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral students in their dissertation projects. The award highlights original and innovative work and is presented to only four students each year. Congratulations Jin!!! Read more...

Mar. 15 - GOOD Magazine listed Dr. Gu as one of GOOD 100- “100 individuals who are improving the world through creativity and innovation”. Read more...

Feb. 26 - Dr. Gu received a grant from JDRF and Sanofi for development of innovative smart insulin formulations. Thanks so much for JDRF and Sanof's terrific support!!! Read more...

Feb. 22 - Dr. Gu has received the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship! Many thanks for the support from Alfred P. Sloan foundation!Read more...

Jan. 8 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk in the 1st symposium of the Chinese American Society of Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology (CASNN) in Beijing this July, chaired by Drs. Shawn Chen and Justin Jiang.

Sep. 10 - Jin got a position in InCube Labs, LLC in San Jose! Congratulations!!! Enjoy California Sunshine! We will miss you!!!

Sep. 5 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a video lecutre for Nagoya University in the end of this October.

Aug., 18 - Dr. Gu was awarded one of this year's TR35 Global Top Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review! Congratulations! Read more...

Aug., 18 - Dr. Gu was selected as one of 2015 Young Innovators in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE)! He will give an invited talk in a special session in the BMES meeting. Congratulations!

Aug., 6 - Dr. Gu was selected in the program of ACademic Career Leadership Academy in Medicine (ACCLAIM) for his proposal of launching a SMART Therapeutics Center between UNC and NC State. Congratulations!!!

Aug., 4 - Quanyin's work using platelet membrance-coated nanocarriers for anticancer drug delivery has been accepted by Advanced Materials and selected as a VIP paper. Congratulations!!!

Aug., 3 - Wujin's work on "CRISPR-CAS9 Delivery" has been accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congratulations!!!

July 20 - Dr. Gu was selected to co-organize a Symposium on "Nanomedicines: Targeting and Clearance" for the 251th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, 2016, together with Dr. Jie Zheng, Dr. Jin Xie, Dr. Zhenjia Wang and Dr. Gang Han.

Jun. 29 - A team made by Dr. Guand Dr. Bruce Cairns, the director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center won $15,000 in a research speed-dating and pitch competition organized by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their "Painkiller" team proposed several transformative ideas for delivery of painkiller. See press release.

Jun. 23 - Jicheng's work has been published on PNAS and received many media coverages, including Science's homepage headline news, Washiongton Post, C&EN News, The Telegraph, Yahoo News, Chemistry World...Congratulations!!!

Dec. 15 - Dr. Gu was selected as a BMES 2015 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE). Congratulations!

Dec. 15 - BHEL's 2nd Annual Research Awards were given to Jicheng Yu (1st Place) and Wujin Sun (2nd Place); 2nd Annual Presentation Awards were given to Yanqi Ye (1st Place) and Dennis Pacardo(2nd Place). All members did great job, but only 4 certificates were prepared...Congratulations!!! Again, we also greatly appreciate our Committee Chair-Dr. Fran Ligler's support!

Nov. 18 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk on "Programmable Nanomedicine" in the Chemistry Department of University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Nov. 12 - Tianyue and Ryan's work using graphene as a carrier for furin-mediated sequential delivery of TRAIL and Dox has been accepted by Advanced Materials! Congratulations!!!

Nov. 11 - Jin has been selected as a winner of 2015 UNC Chapel Hill Graduate Students IMPACT Award! This esteemed award is given to graduate students whose discoveries are making a difference. Jin's work on "ultrasound-mediated insulin delivery" has attracted extensive attentions. See 2014's winners: http://gradschool.unc.edu/news/2014/impactawards.html. Congratulations Jin!!!

Aug. 8 - Quanyin, Jicheng and Yuqi joined the BHEL! Welcome on board!!!

Aug. 4 - Our 2014 Summer Camp was successfully closed! We are very proud of our talented camp members!!! Also many thanks for our wonderful mentors: Dennis, Jin and Yue and members in Dr. Xiaoning Jiang's lab!!!

Jul. 20 - Wanyi's "NanoDaisy" published byBiomaterials has received many attentions! Read more...

Jul. 18 - Dr. Gu delivered invited talks in multiple institutes in China, including Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing Medical University, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS and National Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. It was terrific meeting many friends there and many thanks for their host!

Mar. 22 - Ran's work published on Nature Communicatons has been highlighted as a headline news of Nature's homepage and featured by many media!

Mar. 22 - BHEL joined the Open House Day of COE. Thanks Adriano, Jin and Rocco!

Mar. 20 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk on "smart drug delivery" in “RTP 180°”, which features speakers from the universities, RTP companies and community.

Mar. 10 - Ran and Tianyue's paper has been accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition! Congratulations Ran and Tianyue!!

Mar. 5 - Jin won the BEST Oral Presentation Award of the UNC University Graduate Research Day. Congratulations Jin!!

Mar. 1 - Dr. Gu was invited to write a Review Article on for Nanoscale.

Feb. 21 - Jin has received a student travel award for the 2014 International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) Conference! She will present her work on "Focused-Ultrasond-Triggered Insulin Delivery". Congratulations Jin!!

Feb. 6 - Dr. Gu was invited as a guest of Ms. Joni Aldrich for her esteemed international radio shows on cancer treatment.

Feb. 1 - Dr. Gu was invited to write an Editorial Article on "How Recent Progress in Multiple-Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells by Loposomes" for Nanomedicine.

Jan. 31 - Ran's paper has been accepted by Nature Communications! It will also be highlighted by the Nature's website! Congratulations Ran!!

Jan. 31 - Dr. Gu received the "Junior Faculty Award" from the American Diabetes Association (ADA)! Congratulations! Thanks so much for ADA's GREAT support!

Jan. 27 - Rocco was selected to present his exciting work on NC State's 2014 Graduate Student Research Symposium. Congratulations!

Jan. 2 - Tianyue and Ran's "Gelipo" has been published by Advanced Functional Materials! Congratulations! A gel-liposome (Gelipo)-mediated "Sequential and Site-Specific Delivery (SSSD)" system has been developed for programmed co-delivery of two anticancer therapeutics. Read more...The work has been featured by Molecular Pharmaceutics, Materials Today, Materials View, Science Daily, Kurzweilai, "Wiki"-Nanomedicine, News Observer, FierceDrugDelivery, Triangle Business Journal.

2013

Dec. 8 - Jennifer and Michaela won NCSU’s Undergraduate Research Award Grants for the Spring of 2014! Congratulations!!

11/2013- Jin's paper has been published by Advanced Healthcare Materials! Congratulations! A new insulin delivery method using the focused ultrasound as a remote trigger was developed. It has also been featured by Science Daily, The Guardian, UK Mail Daily, Kurzweilai, The Engineer. Read more...

Nov. 18 - Tianyue and Ran's paper has been accepted by Advanced Functional Materials! It will also be highlighted as a Cover Story! Congratulations!!

Nov. 12 - As a Co-PI, Dr. Gu won the Research Innovation Seed Fund (RISF) Award at NC State! The team includes Dr. Fran Ligler, Dr. Gufeng Wang and Dr. Gu. Congratulations!

Nov. 1 - Dr. Gu was invited to speak at the 13th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting in San Francisco. Thanks so much for the committee's invitation!

Oct. 2 - Jin's paper has been accepted by Advanced Healthcare Materials! It will also be highlighted as a Cover Story! Congratulations!!

Oct. 1 - Both Adriano and Vinayak's proposed research projects on "Biomimetic Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery Platform" and "Novel Drug Delivery Systems for Diabetes Treatment" won the Abrams Scholar Awards AGAIN!They will be paid to conduct research for the 2013-2014 academic year. There is also a total budget of $ 1000 for supplies to support their research projects.Congratulations!!

Sep. 16 - Dennis joined the BHEL! Welcome on board!

Sep. 9 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk on "Therapeutic Protein Delivery" in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
at UCLA.

Aug. 12 - Wujin joined the BHEL! Welcome on board!

Aug. 7 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk on "Closed-Loop Drug Delivery" in the Department of Pharmaceutical Science
at Campbell University.

Jul. 30 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk on "Therapeutic Protein Delivery" in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NCSU.

July. 18 - A new formulation for the closed-loop delivery of insulin using microgels was published on ACS Nano and reported by Science Daily, Kurzweilai, WorldPharmaNews... The particles are smartly swelling in the hyperglycemic solution to release encapsulated insulin (see the animation below). The paper is one of the top 20 most read research articles in ACS Nano in July 2013. Read more...

Jun. 27 - Dr. Gu was invited to give a talk on "Smart Insulin" in the Division of Endocrinology at UNC.

Jun. 6 - Dr. Gu delivered multiple invited talks in China and Singapore and met many friends there.
Many thanks for their host!

May. 28 -"Injectable Nano-Network for Glucose-Mediated Insulin Delivery" was highlighted as a Cover Paper of ACS Nano and reported by TIME Magazine, Science Daily, C&EN, MIT News, Science Translational Medicine and Nano Today. The paper is one of the top 5 most read research articles in ACS Nano from 2012 to 2013.

Oct. 1 - Congratulations! Both Adriano and Vinayak's proposed research projects on "Biomimetic Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery Platform" and "Novel Drug Delivery Systems for Diabetes Treatment" won the Abrams Scholar Awards.They will be paid to conduct research for the 2012-2013 academic year. There is also a total budget of $ 1000 for supplies to support their research projects.

Oct. 1 - Dr. Wang and Jin joined the BHEL! Welcome!

Sep. 26 - Dr. Gu was accepted to join the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics in UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as an adjunct professor.

Sep. 20 - Adriano and Vinayak joined the BHEL! Welcome!

Sep. 10 - Wanyi and Rocco joined the BHEL! Welcome!

Sep. 2 - Dr. Gu joined the Diabetes Center in the Medical School at UNC-CH.